Performance

WEEKEND ONE CURATED BY EMMA LEACH

SATURDAY 21 JUNE

Siân Robinson Davies Scale the Mountain to View the Plain
Coastguards Lookout, West Beach
The performance lasts approx ten minutes and is repeated at 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 13:00, 13:20, 13:40, 14:00, 14:20, 14:40, 15:00

Throughout this performance objects and images shift through varying registers, while remaining physically unchanged. Things trapped within the confines of pictorial space enter the world of three dimensions and objects chase their names. This is a short performance for a small audience.

Natasha Vicars Telling Cards
Around Whitstable 12:00 - 15:30 A card reading is performed, opening up a mixture of chance and narrative unique to each visitor. Telling Cards presents a series of recycled and unexpected narratives. Specific stops at Whitstable Umbrella Hall 12:00, Whitstable beach, near the Old Neptune 13:30, and Whitstable harbour 15:00.

Beatty Hallas Let the games begin!
Whitstable Main Beach 12:00 til late and Game Off 18:00-20:00
Board games, toys, cards, beach games and puzzles. Why not join in the fun! All ages and abilities welcome.

Roz Hilton Growing-Poems
Around Whitstable 14:00 - 18:00
Help plant a poem! Generate a word with our wandering gardener and watch as prose grows in sites around the town...

Robin Deacon Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman (Without the Spectacle)
Sea Cadets Hall, Island Wall, performances at 15:00, 16:00, 17:00
A series of re-enacted performances based on the works of the late American artist Stuart Sherman. The last performance will be followed by a talk by the artist about Stuart Sherman.

Chris Yates with music by Kelvin Pawsey Fleet: Ice Cream Orchestra
Whitstable Harbour 21:00 - 21:45
A new work with a specially created six part composition written for the ice cream van horn. Six vans from Honours Ice Cream will play their solo sections as they take separate routes through the town’s streets, coming together for a full performance at dusk.

SUNDAY 22 JUNE

Siân Robinson Davies Scale the Mountain to View the Plain

Coastguards Lookout, West Beach.
The performance lasts approx ten minutes and is repeated at 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 13:00, 13:20, 13:40, 14:00, 14:20, 14:40, 15:00
Throughout this performance objects and images shift through varying registers, while remaining physically unchanged. Things trapped within the confines of pictorial space enter the world of three dimensions and objects chase their names. This is a short performance for a small audience.

Natasha Vicars Telling Cards
Around Whitstable 12:00 - 15:30
A card reading is performed, opening up a mixture of chance and narrative unique to each visitor. Telling Cards presents a series of recycled and unexpected narratives. Specific stops at Whitstable Umbrella Hall 12:00, Whitstable beach, near the Old Neptune 13:30, and Whitstable harbour 15:00.

Beatty Hallas Let the games begin!
Whitstable Main Beach 12:00 - 18:00
Board games, toys, cards, beach games and puzzles. Why not join in the fun! All ages and abilities welcome.

Mark Butcher Instructions for a scene
Whitstable Umbrella Hall 13:00 - 18:00
An ever-changing series of actors and a director rehearse and re-rehearse a scene of revolution, attempting to outrun history, society and themselves. Instructions for a scene is a live participatory work to be watched or to join in. www.instructionsfor.com

Roz Hilton Growing-Poems
Around Whitstable 14:00 - 18:00
Help plant a poem! Generate a word with our wandering gardener and watch as prose grows in sites around the town...

Sandra Pearson Fully Present
Dredgermans Court (above The Royal Native Oyster Stores) Horsebridge Road 16:00
A one off performance devised by Canterbury artist Sandra Pearson with Emma Leach and Whitstable cellist Steph Brunton. Featuring original music by Tommy Pearson. To be lost is to be fully present - Walter Benjamin.

WEEKEND TWO CURATED BY FROG MORRIS

SATURDAY 28 JUNE

Charlie Tweed The Man from Above
Main Beach 10:00 - 18:00 (not at high tide)
The Man From Above will construct a small dwelling on top of a scaffold tower located on the Horsebridge Slipway at Whitstable. From there he will lecture visitors on his ideas of safety, security and survival and his plans for embracing the dangers of flooding by releasing all the water.

Kim Noble Considerations for an Island Race
A less than spectacular arrival, Main Beach 15:30 - 16:00
Followed by a presentation at the Sea Scouts Hut, Long Beach at 16:15
Kim Noble is a bit of an arse but his new commision for the Whitstable Biennale might be okay. Working in performance, video and comedy, he presents a series of performative ruminations on coastal events ranging from the D-day landings to Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Kim's arrival is key.......

Whitstable Tourist Board Whitstable: A Unique Art History
Meet outside the Umbrella Hall 14:00
This year at the Whitstable Biennale, the Whitstable Tourist Board is working in conjunction with the curators of the festival to produce a special art-orientated tour around the famous town. The tour will visit the various historical landmarks of Whitstable, with an emphasis on its unique art history. The tour will last for approx 45 minutes.

Das SCHIMMEL Herman Rarebell III

Herman Rarebell’s steps to SCHIMMELhood
Starts at Whitstable Castle at 12:00, proceeds through the town finishing at The Smack Inn, Middle Wall at 18:00
Herman Rarebell III has recently woken from a three year long coma, only to find his closest friend has risen from lowly interior designer to cult godlike figure Das SCHIMMEL. Herman Rarebell must prove his worthiness in a string of enduring tests within the picturesque seaside town of Whitstable.

Lee Campbell Rise and Fall
Main Beach, 17:15 Performance approx 25 mins long
Rise and Fall is inspired by Lee's love of the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. A line of Reggies, dressed in typical British office worker attire, will chant catchphrases from the sitcom such as "I didn't get where I am today". They will then recreate the moment when Reggie runs into the water and comes back emancipated from the drudgery of capitalist existence, ready for a more purposeful life.

Seaside Cabaret
The Smack Inn, Middle Wall 18:00 - late

An eccentric mix of music, art and comedy, featuring Victor Mount, whose most beautiful songs are concerned with the bathos of failure, Leigh Clarke, who uses an insane combination of mouth percussion and mimicry to bombard the audience with stories of the absurd, and Frog Morris, whose live performances wander between moments of comedy and tragic pathos as he agitates the audience into a profound sense of bemusement. More Seaside Cabaret guests to be announced...

SUNDAY 29 JUNE

Charlie Tweed The Man from Above
Main Beach 10:00 - 18:00 (not at high tide)
The Man From Above will construct a small dwelling on top of a scaffold tower located on the Horsebridge Slipway at Whitstable. From there he will lecture visitors on his ideas of safety, security and survival and his plans for embracing the dangers of flooding by releasing all the water.

Whitstable Tourist Board Whitstable: A Unique Art History
Meet outside the Umbrella Hall 15:00
This year at the Whitstable Biennale, the Whitstable Tourist Board is working in conjunction with the curators of the festival to produce a special art-orientated tour around the famous town. The tour will visit the various historical landmarks of Whitstable, with an emphasis on its unique art history. The tour will last for approx 45 minutes.

Katy Richardson Summer Holiday Extreme - Packing up (an artist's talk)
Sea Cadets Hall, Middle Wall 16:30
During the first week of the Biennale, Katy Richardson will spend all day, every day, putting herself through a rigorous and tightly scheduled programme of low profile performances on the beach and seafront. The work will culminate in an artist's talk on Sunday 29 June, constructed around the packing away of items used and found during the week.

Frog Morris, Mark Quinn and Daren Callow The Unwrong Quiz
The Smack Inn, Middle Wall 18:00 - late
Frog Morris and Mark Quinn will be your quiz masters, in a pub quiz where there are no right or wrong answers. Prizes will be awarded for the most creative or interesting answers and musician Daren Callow will provide sing-along musical interludes between rounds.

WEEKEND THREE

SATURDAY 5 JULY

Andy Malone Needle in a Haystack
Starting from Oyster Stores working east towards The Old Neptune 10:00 - 18:00
Andy Malone leads a participative work searching for sharks' teeth (which are approximately 50 million years old) on the sea shore, working from one breakwater to the next. All finds will be documented and collated into a limited edition artists' book, to be sent on to everyone who finds a tooth. Drop in for any length of time, you will find Andy near the shoreline.

Sally O'Reilly & Mel Brimfield What Whitstable
What Whitstable: a guided tour

SUNDAY 6 JULY

Andy Malone Needle in a Haystack
Starting from Oyster Stores working east towards The Old Neptune 10:00 - 18:00
Andy Malone leads a participative work searching for sharks' teeth (which are approximately 50 million years old) on the sea shore, working from one breakwater to the next. All finds will be documented and collated into a limited edition artists' book, to be sent on to everyone who finds a tooth. Drop in for any length of time, you will find Andy near the shoreline.

Sally O'Reilly & Mel Brimfield What Whitstable

What Whitstable: a guided tour

Whitstable Biennale Closing Event

Details to follow…